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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2019-07-06 05:10:53 +0200
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2019-07-06 05:10:53 +0200
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doc: Remove documentation of Solaris 8 and older as supported platforms.
* doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Target Platforms): Mention that Solaris <= 8 is unsupported. * doc/posix-functions/mbrtowc.texi: Don't mention Solaris specific workarounds. * doc/posix-functions/memcmp.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/rename.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/tzset.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-headers/wctype.texi: Likewise. * doc/**/*.texi: Update.
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@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ Under Windows, when passing a pipe, Gnulib's @code{select} replacement might
return 0 even before the timeout has passed. Programs using it with pipes can
thus busy wait.
@item
-On Solaris 2.6 and older, @code{select} applied to a file descriptor opened
-for reading and associated with @code{/dev/null} hangs, waiting for input,
-when instead it should return immediately.
-@item
On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select}
may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}.
@item